What's the difference between intensify and redouble?

Intensify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.
  • (v. i.) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
  • (2) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
  • (3) Hyperimmunization with the tick encephalitis and Western horse encephalomyelitis viruses reproduced in the brain of albino mice, intensified the protein synthesis in the splenic tissue during the productive phase of the immunogenesis (the 7th day).
  • (4) First, SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed an intensified hepatic microsomal polypeptide (MW 54,000) following picloram pretreatment.
  • (5) This effect could be intensified by a preceding treatment of the animal with androgens.
  • (6) In a recent study, Orr and Lanzetta (1984) showed that the excitatory properties of fear facial expressions previously described (Lanzetta & Orr, 1981; Orr & Lanzetta, 1980) do not depend on associative mechanisms; even in the absence of reinforcement, fear faces intensify the emotional reaction to a previously conditioned stimulus and disrupt extinction of an acquired fear response.
  • (7) This thread ran through his later writings, which focused particularly on questions of the transformation of work and working time, envisaging the possibility that the productivity gains made possible by capitalism could be used to enhance individual and social life, rather than intensifying ruthless economic competition and social division.
  • (8) Besides, the movement of mitochondria to the neuronal processes is intensified.
  • (9) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government has joined MPs, bloggers and local media in denouncing the newly-released Warner Brothers epic, 300, as a calculated attempt to demonise Iran at a time of intensifying US pressure over the country's nuclear programme.
  • (10) And stopping them means taking action in Syria, because it is Raqqa that is their headquarters .” Isis digging in amid intensified airstrikes in Raqqa, say activists Read more He added: “We shouldn’t be content with outsourcing our security to our allies.
  • (11) Families fear that after April’s disaster the cycle of poverty in the region will be intensified.
  • (12) These data indicate the existence of diverse, proinflammatory interactions of pyocyanin and 1-hp with human phagocytes, which may intensify neutrophil-mediated tissue damage during P. aeruginosa infections.
  • (13) Under identical conditions methandrostenon intensified the proteins synthesis in the nuclear fraction of the liver alone.
  • (14) The resolution also opens the door for other bodies, such as the European Union and the International Criminal Court, to intensify their pressure on Israel to desist from its illegal practices on the West Bank and its war crimes in Gaza.
  • (15) In this state, IPPV did not reduce the blood pressure in the supine position, and did not intensify its fall when the upper body was raised.
  • (16) After 10 months exposure to Fenthion, cellular necrosis and gliosis intensified in the CA4 and CA3 regions and occasionally involved the CA2.
  • (17) So far 34 patients in complete remission have been given one or two courses of the intensified consolidation therapy with high-dose cytosine-arabinoside and daunorubicin.
  • (18) The long-running dispute over the Senkaku islands – known as the Diaoyu in China – intensified earlier this month after Japan nationalised the territories, resulting in violent anti-Japanese demonstrations in dozens of Chinese cities.
  • (19) Two sets of a twin-focus X-ray tube and a 12-inch image intensifier (II) were mounted on the gantry in the isocentric and cross-firing positions.
  • (20) Elsewhere in the brain, minimal involvement of the entorhinal cortex neurons occurred 3 days postexposure and intensified by 7 days.

Redouble


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply.
  • (v. i.) To become greatly or repeatedly increased; to be multiplied; to be greatly augmented; as, the noise redoubles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) King Salman of Saudi Arabia urged the redoubling of efforts to “eradicate this dangerous scourge and rid the world of its evils”.
  • (2) In the period of observation the proportion of isolated E. coli redoubled and was nearly 68% in 1984.
  • (3) France, which hosted last December’s summit, ratified in June and François Hollande has called on countries to redouble their efforts to ratify before the next major UN climate summit in Marrakesh in November.
  • (4) But the former Conservative defence secretary Liam Fox claimed the timing of the Isaf statement was unfortunate, saying: "We need to redouble our efforts to make it very clear to the forces of terror that they cannot push our strategy off course."
  • (5) Russia’s nuclear sabre-rattling is unjustified, destabilising and dangerous Jens Stoltenberg In blunt language, the Nato chief delivered a scathing critique of Russia’s behaviour over the past year – including Moscow’s armed intervention in Ukraine – and vowed the transatlantic alliance would redouble its commitment to “collective defence”.
  • (6) That is not to say the terrorists won't redouble their efforts.
  • (7) We believe that Roger can best be honoured by redoubling our commitment to protect elephants and our priceless wildlife heritage.
  • (8) Redoubled efforts are required to prevent and overcome the restricted access of highly sensitized patients to the increasingly successful outcome of renal transplantation.
  • (9) Far from signalling the demise of an impossible ideal, the death of the Co-op's ambitions should only encourage ministers, campaigners and consumers to redouble their efforts, and demand better banking.
  • (10) And that means we must all redouble our efforts to wipe out antisemitism.” May’s pledge came two days after Britain’s leading counter-terror officer, Mark Rowley, warned about increased antisemitism around the world and heightened concern about possible attacks on the Jewish community in Britain .
  • (11) Now researchers may be forced to redouble their efforts.
  • (12) Frustrated by his inability to deal with EU migration, Cameron will inevitably redouble efforts to rein in non-EU migration, which might be popular for a while, not least because it might also curb visible migration by non-white Commonweath types.
  • (13) One organisation has redoubled its efforts, however, organising a rush of public meetings with Liberal Democrat MPs to remind them, it says, that their traditionally grassroots-based party should know better than to back such a measure.
  • (14) We emphasize that HIV and AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza, polio and other communicable diseases remain serious global concerns, and we commit to redoubling efforts to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, and to eliminate mother to child transmission of HIV as well as to renewing and strengthening the fight against malaria, tuberculosis, and neglected tropical diseases.
  • (15) In further research on these complex problems, researchers are encouraged to use operational definitions that avoid terms like abuse and violence, to focus new efforts on emotional mediators of violent actions, to evaluate the effects of violence on the entire family system, and to redouble efforts to conduct systematic outcome research.
  • (16) If compounds like these validate the hypothesis that inhibition of 5-LO will have a significant anti-inflammatory effect, a redoubling of effort throughout the industry to find second- and third-generation selective agents may be expected.
  • (17) The new tool will also outline how many people in each area smoke – the average across England is 18% – in the hope that this will spur GPs and other health professionals to redouble their efforts to get people to quit smoking, which is recognised as a major risk factor for dementia.
  • (18) That's why this year, 2014, we are not just going to stick to the plan – we are going to redouble our efforts to deliver every part of it, to benefit the whole country and secure a better future for everyone."
  • (19) But the former Conservative defence secretary Liam Fox said the timing of the Isaf statement was unfortunate, saying: "We need to redouble our efforts to make it very clear to the forces of terror that they cannot push our strategy off course."
  • (20) If anything, the leaked report will encourage Mullah Omar, the Pakistan-linked Haqqani network and other factions to redouble their efforts to inflict maximum damage and humiliation on retreating western forces.

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